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Jason Payne

Research Manager

Contact details

Tel: (02) 6260 9283
Fax: (02) 6260 9201

Academic qualifications

  • BSocSci (Criminology) (University of Western Sydney)
  • GradDip (Japanese) (University of Western Sydney)
  • MPublic Policy (Australian National University)

Selected employment

Nov 2004- Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
2002-2004 Research Assistant, Australian Institute of Criminology

Current areas of specialisation/expertise

  • Drug courts and other specialty courts
  • Illicit drugs and crime
  • Property crime prevention/ repeat victimisation

List of major projects current and past

  • Crime prevention research register 
  • Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) 
  • )DUCODrug Use Careers of Offenders ( 
  • North Queensland drug court evaluation
  • Repeat victimisation of residential burglary victims in the ACT
  • South East Queensland drug court evaluation
  • Specialty courts in Australia

Publications (most recent)

Australian Institute of Criminology publications

  • Payne J 2005. Final report on the North Queensland Drug Court. Technical and background paper series no. 17. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tbp/tbp017/
  • Prichard J & Payne J 2005. Alcohol, drugs and crime: a study of juveniles in detention. Research and public policy series no. 67, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/67/
  • Prichard J & Payne J 2005. Key findings from the Drug Use Careers of Juvenile Offenders study. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 304. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi304.html
  • Putt J, Payne, J & Milner L 2005. Indigenous male offending and substance abuse. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 293. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi293.html
  • Makkai T & Payne J 2003. Drugs and crime: a study of incarcerated male offenders. Research and public policy series no. 52, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/52/
  • Makkai T & Payne J 2003. Key findings from the drug use careers of offenders (DUCO) study. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 267. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi267.html

Journal articles

  • Makkai T and Payne J 2005. Illicit drug use and offending histories: a study of male incarcerated offenders in Australia. Probation journal 52(2): 153-168

Books and reports

  • Holder R, Makkai T & Payne J 2004. Crime victims and the prevention of residential burglary: report of the ACT Burglary Victims Response Project 2004. Canberra: ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/reports/2004-02-burglary.html
  • Payne J 2004. Property crime in the Australian Capital Territory: report to the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety, in Property crime reduction strategy 2004-2007. Canberra: Department of Justice and Community Safety. http://www.jcs.act.gov.au/eLibrary/ACT_Property_Crime_Reduction_Strategy.html

Other publications

  • Jeffries S, Payne J & Smith RG 2002. Crime prevention research in Australia 1990-2002. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. http://www.aic.gov.au/research/cvp/register/

Conference papers

  • Payne J 2005. Recidivism: researching re-offending. Paper to Safety, crime and justice: from data to policy AIC/ABS conference, Canberra, 6-7 June
  • Payne J and Wiman G 2005. Working across government: the forgotten dimension in drug court evaluations. Paper to At the cutting edge: therapeutic jurisprudence in Magistrates Courts conference, Perth, 5 May
  • Makkai T & Payne J 2004. Drug courts: current issues and future prospects. Paper to 17th Annual Australian Winter School on Alcohol and Other Drugs, Drug court conference, Brisbane, 5-9 July. http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/other/makkai_toni/2004-07-drugcourts.html
  • Graycar A, McGregor K, Makkai, T & Payne J 2002. Drugs and law enforcement: actions and opinions. Paper to South Australian Drugs Summit 2002, Adelaide, 26 June. http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/other/graycar_adam/2002-06-adelaide.html

Committees/Memberships

  • National Criminal Courts Statistics Advisory Group